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Let's not talk about The Cartel, eh? Let's wipe it from our minds, like a storm cloud on a summer's day or a drunken tumble down a very long flight of stairs. Instead, let's mosey over to Gunslinger. I say mosey, of course, because I'm a useless cretin, and because the latest Call of Juarez game takes the series back to the Old West where it belongs. Varmint.

Cheap Chinese manufacture begone! The Raspberry Pi, that fabulous little British PC invention, is now being manufactured in the UK, as was always the goal.

Valve has arrived upon a solution to its spam-laden Steam Greenlight service. The Half-Life creator will now charge a $100 fee for developers to list their games on the site.

A group of late-thirties men are gathered around the Trials booth at Ubisoft's Digital Days event in Paris, and they're all talking about the same thing. They're all talking about playing Trials, of course, but more specifically, they're talking about playing Trials with their kids. Young children love RedLynx's stunt gauntlet as much as grown-up children, by the sounds of it. Even Antti Ilvessuo, RedLynx's head honcho, admits he plays with his three-year-old - Ilvessuo junior working the gas while Ilvessuo senior controls the balance.

Football Manager 2013 has been formally announced for PC and Mac for release "before Christmas", as always.

A PlayStation Vita exploit has been discovered which may allow homebrew software to run.

Zeitgeist crowd funding platform Kickstarter isn't all about raising thousands or millions of pounds to fund games that publishers wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

Japanese game maker Marvelous Entertainment is best known for games like No More Heroes, Harvest Moon and Little King's Story. And most of its produce flies West courtesy of subsidiary company Rising Star Games.

These could be good: new Ubisoft mobile games Rayman Jungle Run and Nutty Fluffies.

It's September 6, which can only mean one thing - it's independence day in Swaziland! Oh, and it's also Ubisoft's Digital Day, which has already brought news of a fresh Call of Juarez and the return of Trials to PC.

Where does all this fit within the world of gaming, and does it work?

Assassin's Creed spin-off Utopia will be a strategy simulation for iOS and Android, publisher Ubisoft has revealed.

Ubisoft's lifted the lid on another installment of its long-running Call of Juarez series - and Gunslinger, a downloadable title set for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC, goes back to the series' period roots.

Xbox Live Arcade success Trials Evolution is to be expanded with its first DLC pack, Origin of Pain, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

With unlockables that come boasting titles like The Box and The Chest, The Basement Collection is pretty aptly named, really. In principle, Team Meat co-founder Edmund McMillen's latest is a collection of the Flash games he put together when he was learning his craft. In actuality, it's a chance to rummage around through his old files and crates and notepads, checking out everything from design sketches that look like op art and playable prototypes that feel a little like doodles, to a selection of actual doodles and crayon drawings he did as a kid.

Update: According to a statement to Kotaku, Ace Attorney 5 is coming to Europe and the US.

Modern Warfare 3's third collection of DLC, the Chaos Pack, is slated to launch for PS3 and PC on 13th September, Infinity Ward has announced via twitter.

2D platformer/shooter/beat-'em-up Mercenary Kings - the latest by Scott Pilgrim vs. The World creator Tribute Games - is coming to Ouya, the developer has announced.

At some point in Portal 2's development protagonist Chell was slated to marry a turret, Valve announced during a panel at PAX Prime.

Broken Sword creator Charles Cecil's upcoming sequel The Serpent's Curse has been fully funded on Kickstarter.

Tactical team-based RTS/FPS hybrid Natural Selection 2 is slated to launch this October, developer Unknown Worlds has announced.

Swedish developer Simogo is known for its cute-as-a-button sqee-a-thons like Beat Sneak Bandit, Bumpy Road and ilomilo - for which it did the art before the two-man studio was formed - but that's all about to change with its upcoming iOS horror game Year Walk, due this winter.

One of the biggest revolutions for console gamers over the last decade has been the ability to connect to millions of other players online, where the standard of play has risen quite sharply since the days of playing split-screen with some friends. The itch to gain an edge in games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - to pick a random FPS name out of a hat - is a compulsion that can lead down several paths. For some, choosing a third party MLG-branded gamepad appears to be the sure-fire ticket to success, while others might see splashing out on a HDTVs known for its minimal latency as a more sensible bet. However, it seems one of the more popular ways to "up your game" in recent years is to take to the world of surround sound headsets.

We've watched plenty of gorgeous-looking cut-scenes from Naughty Dog's The Last of Us, but footage showing how the game actually plays has been somewhat thin on the ground.

Publisher EA has detailed the company's focus on growing social and mobile functions in gaming by highlighting its lack of single-player games in development.

Since Rift launched and we all clapped appreciatively, a little surprised at how accomplished this MMO out of nowhere was, giants like Star Wars: The Old Republic and now Guild Wars 2 have come along.

I used to present a BBC show about video games. There were three series in total, with the last series this ridiculous sprawling thing with two TV specials and about 18 online episodes. It was hard work, often fun work, and barely anybody watched any of it. We existed in a time before the iPlayer, and the show went out on BBC Scotland in a late night slot. We were commissioned by a guy at BBC Scotland called Ewan Angus, and I remember his sole pointer being "I don't want to understand a word of it." There are very few heroes on the broadcast side of television, but Ewan Angus is often one of them. It was a brave commission, and I haven't seen anything like it since.

Counter-Strike Global Offensive has failed to appear on the EU PlayStation Store for a third week, as Sony continues to remain unable to explain its absence.

Wireless PS Vita Remote Play has arrived for the PS3 God of War Collection and ICO and Shadow of the Colossus Collection.

Yesterday I bought you news that Joe Danger 2 would be coming out in September, and today I can confirm the exact date that Hello Danger's sequel will land. Tomorrow I'll likely be able to tell you the exact hour that it lands on Xbox Live Arcade.